Dallas by Cassidy Cayman

Author:Cassidy Cayman [Cayman, Cassidy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Black Cat
Published: 2019-05-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The sisters climbed down and huddled around Eloise’s desk. Miranda felt cold all over even though she was sweaty from being up in the crawl space. A soft breeze from the open windows in the lab wafted through but Eloise got up and closed the door.

“I don’t want him coming in here,” she said when Miranda made a noise of dissent.

“What’s wrong with you?” Miranda asked. One minute Toren was her sister’s hero and now she seemed as scared of him as when she thought he might be out to liberate Ambrose. “Wait, you don’t think he had anything to do with that thing up there?” She couldn’t make herself say bomb. Couldn’t make herself believe it.

“Of course I do. You’re stupid if you don’t,” Eloise said, crossing her arms tight around her middle. “It’s the only thing that makes sense.”

“It doesn’t make sense at all.”

Eloise held up a finger. “He wanted to go up there to make sure there was no evidence left.”

Miranda shook her head. “He offered to go up there because you were whining about your monkey.”

“Ambrose isn’t a monkey,” Eloise said out of habit, holding up a second finger. “He didn’t want us to go up there.”

“Because he didn’t think it was safe.”

A third finger went up. “You said he knows about bombs from being a soldier.”

Miranda reached over and mashed the fingers down. “I said I thought he might know about them. I don’t know if he does or not. I saw him up there. He didn’t have any evidence on him.”

She refused to admit she’d had a cozy conversation with him. The more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt. It was dark. He’d snuck up on her as if he had cat feet and was swathed in yards of wool. He could have hid any manner of things in the folds of that kilt.

“No. It doesn’t make sense.”

“What’s your main basis for that belief?” Eloise asked, using Miranda’s own form of questioning against her.

“The main basis being that he was here during the fire. He was locked in with us. And when you started crying about Ambrose, he immediately ran into the flames to try to save him.”

Eloise squeezed her eyes shut and made a pained noise. “Maybe he flubbed the door lock when he broke in and as soon as he realized he was trapped with us, he ran back to try and do damage control. He might have taken off that way even if I hadn’t mentioned Ambrose. And we know he didn’t get sent by Dr. Deenan.”

“We don’t know that at all,” Miranda argued. She knew she shouldn’t be so vehemently defending the Highlander. Her sister had some good points. “And I just don’t see why. What would be his reason?”

Eloise shrugged. “That’s for the police to figure out after he gets caught.”

“We’ve gone over this already,” Miranda said, tired of going in circles about Toren’s innocence. The uncomfortable fact was that she didn’t have enough facts to make a rational decision either way.

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